Robin Blaser reading at Vancouver Art Gallery, 1982

Date

1982-11-03

Description

Continuation of Blaser's reading of his essay "The Violets" . on Charles Olson and A.N. Whitehead. Note: A version of this paper can be found in Lines 2, fall 1983 This is a problem of methodology..." (Lines 2, p.87) "His spelling in Greek letters of the word chaos in interesting..." (p.88) "Olson is a careful and poised modern mind, but with this interest in the archaic he follows through on an intuition that has coloured the arts of our century..." (p.90) Blaser ends his lecture by.reading some of Olson's poems. relating to poetics "A Later Note-on Letter #15" (pp.93-94) "history as time /alchemy of /slain kings roots..." (pp.95-96) "When do poppies bloom I ask myself..." (p.98) End of lecture

Physical description

Side A: 24:05

Genre

Poetry readings

Sound recordings

Type of resource

Sound recording non-musical

Language

English

Part of

Robin Blaser Readings

Identifier

RB_424

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